Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Verizon “Share a Whopping Bill” plan

I was really hoping to move my iPhones (2) from ATT to Verizon with the new iPhones hopefully coming out in September. After all, all the rest of my family phones are on Verizon, 5 of them plus a Mifi. It stinks paying for minutes or texts across the two services.

The only reason I went on ATT in the first place was because Verizon didn’t have an iPhone. Now that they do and we are finally eligible (post ATT contract), it was a definite. It was a total lock!

Until they announced their new horrible phone plans - http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/plan-information/?page=share-everything . I have yet to figure out a use case where there isn’t a massive price gouge going with the new plan. Whether it’s one phone or all phones or any combination, it’s like a hundred dollars more a month, and way less data to boot.

No way I will get a single new plan or upgrade/update there. All my dumb phones can stay there without a contract on my grandfathered plan as long as they last. I am taking my hundreds of dollars a month to some other vendor that doesn’t want to punitively charge an idiot tax. I’m no idiot.